CMS Care Compare · 2026 3 nursing homes Minnesota

Freeborn County, Minnesota

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County inventory for Freeborn County, Minnesota is drawn from U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nursing Home Compare / Home Health Compare (14,710 Medicare-certified nursing homes nationwide) with cost context from the private CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey - see our methodology. Home-health agency signature

CMS Home Health Compare maps no Medicare-certified home-health agencies into Freeborn County (lower tercile) beside 3 nursing homes - CareScout 2025 Minnesota medians + CMS Five-Star.

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Sheet MN-FREEBORN-MINNESOTA · Freeborn, MN

NH-SMALL · BEDS-SMALL · STAR-LOW · HH-NONE · RANK-MID · PHOTO-NONE · AL-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • NH-SMALL 3 homes
  • BEDS-SMALL 216 beds
  • STAR-LOW 2.7★ avg
  • HH-NONE 0 agencies
  • RANK-MID #1,114/2,851
  • PHOTO-NONE No peer
  • AL-MID $6,573/mo
  • BOOK-FULL 3/3 NH · 0 HH

Stamps lead with home-health agency tercile (low) plus nursing-home inventory, licensed beds, Five-Star county average, corpus NH-count rank, photo-finish peer, and CareScout assisted-living medians.

What a thin home-health map shows for Freeborn County

Home-health coverage is thin in Freeborn County: no Medicare-certified agencies map in on the current CMS join beside 3 nursing homes and 216 licensed beds. CMS nursing-home stars average 2.7/5 on rated homes.

CareScout 2025 Minnesota medians frame mid-pack counties like this: assisted living $6,573/mo, semi-private nursing $10,646/mo, private nursing $13,870/mo, home health aide $8,389/mo, adult day $2,600/mo. Local Freeborn County providers may sit above or below those state medians.

Star counts across Freeborn County break as 1 at 2★, 2 at 3★. Ownership leans Non profit - Church related (67% of 3 homes). Families typically weigh the ladder alongside bed size, ownership, distance, and specialty units before visiting.

1★
0
2★
1
3★
2
4★
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5★
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Sources: CMS Nursing Home Compare + CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey. See methodology.

$6,573
Assisted Living / mo
$10,646
Nursing (Semi) / mo
$8,389
Home Care / mo
2.7
Avg CMS Rating

Top facilities in Freeborn, MN

Ranked by CMS overall star rating, not an editorial "best of" pick. Visit in person and consult a care professional before choosing.

  1. 1
    Good Samaritan Society - Albert Lea
    3★
  2. 2
    St Johns on Fountain Lake
    3★
  3. 3
    Thorne Crest Retirement Center
    2★

Nursing Homes in Freeborn County

3 CMS-certified homes in this county book, ordered by overall star rating.

Facility City Rating Beds Ownership
Good Samaritan Society - Albert Lea Albert Lea 3/5 80 Non profit - Corporation
St Johns on Fountain Lake Albert Lea 3/5 84 Non profit - Church related
Thorne Crest Retirement Center Albert Lea 2/5 52 Non profit - Church related

Read next when home-health coverage is thin

Read CMS stars with Freeborn County's 2.7 average
Mid-pack context for Freeborn: How inspection, staffing, and quality measures combine when the county mean sits below 3★.
Choosing among 3 Freeborn County homes
A visit checklist that starts from CMS stars, then adds staffing, ownership, and specialty units.
Paying for care when Freeborn AL medians run high
Sparse home-health path: Medicare vs Medicaid vs private pay when CareScout assisted-living medians sit in the upper band.
Cost calculator for Freeborn County planning
Sparse home-health path: State CareScout medians rolled into a monthly planning estimate.

Continue on the Minnesota elder-care overview or the highest-rated states ranking. Costs shown are Minnesota state-level medians from CareScout 2025 (county-level cost data is not available).

Read our methodology - how CMS Care Compare and CareScout 2025 are joined for Freeborn County.